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Indiscretion
Join Damon on his quest as he uncovers what it truly means to be a man.
Life, love and the journey...
Damon Harris' life has been one series of dead ends. His latest fiasco has been willfully giving himself in marriage to the perfect woman. Unfortunately, after the fact, he realizes he doesn't love her. Not only has he ruined his own life, but even though he didn't mean to, he's dragging this person...this beautiful, undeserving woman along with him. His stress meter is on 10! Tension mounts. Guilt mounts. He becomes desperate for the one thing that has eluded him his entire life...happiness. As he searches for something to numb the pain, and eventually finds it in the form of a woman, temporary satisfaction is all he receives. He's soon to find out just how big a mistake he's made and how low rock bottom can be before he finds his way back to the top.
Life, love and the journey...
Damon Harris' life has been one series of dead ends. His latest fiasco has been willfully giving himself in marriage to the perfect woman. Unfortunately, after the fact, he realizes he doesn't love her. Not only has he ruined his own life, but even though he didn't mean to, he's dragging this person...this beautiful, undeserving woman along with him. His stress meter is on 10! Tension mounts. Guilt mounts. He becomes desperate for the one thing that has eluded him his entire life...happiness. As he searches for something to numb the pain, and eventually finds it in the form of a woman, temporary satisfaction is all he receives. He's soon to find out just how big a mistake he's made and how low rock bottom can be before he finds his way back to the top.
229 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 13, 2013
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About the author
Tonya Lampley
5 books21 followersA reformed corporate grinder living in Ohio. I share my life with my husband and spend my days writing uplifting stories about characters who find the courage to improve their lives by taking leaps of faith and believing in themselves. My stories center around all the things that make us human…love, loss, redemption. I believe that strong women and evolved men have the power to change the world. I write to change the consciousness of both. I read to change my own.
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April 20, 2018
Great ending
This story really blossomed into something totally unexpected. Neither Damon nor Carmen were ready for marriage, at least not to each other. Damon's heart pined for a lost love while Carmen was in love with the idea of marriage. No shock it didn't work out. I thought that issue was a little belabored and I almost gave up on this book, but I'm glad I didn't. I couldn't help but feel sympathy for Damon after his condition was discovered, after all, he wasn't a player, just made a bad decision. But that's one of the main points of this book, I guess, think before you act. What came of this situation was what made this story. Damon really found himself and became a champion for a cause. His experience even caused his best friend to grow up and change his lifestyle. I'm glad Damon found peace within. Excellent writing.
This story really blossomed into something totally unexpected. Neither Damon nor Carmen were ready for marriage, at least not to each other. Damon's heart pined for a lost love while Carmen was in love with the idea of marriage. No shock it didn't work out. I thought that issue was a little belabored and I almost gave up on this book, but I'm glad I didn't. I couldn't help but feel sympathy for Damon after his condition was discovered, after all, he wasn't a player, just made a bad decision. But that's one of the main points of this book, I guess, think before you act. What came of this situation was what made this story. Damon really found himself and became a champion for a cause. His experience even caused his best friend to grow up and change his lifestyle. I'm glad Damon found peace within. Excellent writing.
August 26, 2013
Here we have a story about Damon, a fellow who’s been serially connected to several women, fathered a child with two of them, parties perhaps a bit too hard with friends but then seems to want to patch his life together. The book begins with Damon’s attempt to do that, by marrying Carmen, a woman he clearly does not love in any romantic way, but as a possible last ditch effort to give himself some respectability.
The story takes a very long time, indeed much too long, to develop in a coherent fashion. And it tumbles into some egregious traps at the outset. For one thing, though the physical intimacy is written with great taste, Damon and Carmen never seem to consummate their marriage. If readers are to trust an author to tell them a story, the author must write the story readers expect. When two people marry, they engage in sex. Kudos to Ms Lampley for sparing us the standard, graphic depictions of writhing bodies and gratuitous moaning and lurching, but lovemaking was expected, and it never happened.
Until Damon runs headlong into his physical passions with Candy, from whom he contracts AIDS, then the plot twist arrives, the ‘indiscretion’ we’ve anticipated all along.
Indiscretion is written pretty well, characters believable if a bit bland and too fashion conscious, dialogue stiff but okay, and there were a few typos. For example, ones curiosity isn’t ‘peaked,’ but ‘piqued.’ Rather than add to the already over-burdened market of over-sexed-male gets his comeuppance books, Ms Lampley might have considered writing a more thorough examination of what havoc male hypersexual behavior wreaks in the age of AIDS. Perhaps she ought to begin the book at Candy’s entrance? As it is, the AIDS factor seems to have little effect on Damon, his indiscretion little more than a case of indigestion.
Byron Edgington, author ofThe Sky Behind Me, a Memoir of Flying and Life
The story takes a very long time, indeed much too long, to develop in a coherent fashion. And it tumbles into some egregious traps at the outset. For one thing, though the physical intimacy is written with great taste, Damon and Carmen never seem to consummate their marriage. If readers are to trust an author to tell them a story, the author must write the story readers expect. When two people marry, they engage in sex. Kudos to Ms Lampley for sparing us the standard, graphic depictions of writhing bodies and gratuitous moaning and lurching, but lovemaking was expected, and it never happened.
Until Damon runs headlong into his physical passions with Candy, from whom he contracts AIDS, then the plot twist arrives, the ‘indiscretion’ we’ve anticipated all along.
Indiscretion is written pretty well, characters believable if a bit bland and too fashion conscious, dialogue stiff but okay, and there were a few typos. For example, ones curiosity isn’t ‘peaked,’ but ‘piqued.’ Rather than add to the already over-burdened market of over-sexed-male gets his comeuppance books, Ms Lampley might have considered writing a more thorough examination of what havoc male hypersexual behavior wreaks in the age of AIDS. Perhaps she ought to begin the book at Candy’s entrance? As it is, the AIDS factor seems to have little effect on Damon, his indiscretion little more than a case of indigestion.
Byron Edgington, author ofThe Sky Behind Me, a Memoir of Flying and Life
February 2, 2014
An engaging, cautionary tale…
Life is just happening for Damon Harris and he is not happy in this state and feels torn between his friends and his wife. He seems to go alone just to get along and this finally catches up with him after he does something that he regrets. Months after a series of bad choices on one particular night, his life is thrown into a tailspin. The life he knew changes and he wishes it was back as it was. After waddling in misery, he does what is necessary to make a better life for himself. In doing so, he makes a better life for others and becomes someone he is proud to be.
“Indiscretion” by Tonya Lampley is an engaging, cautionary tale that makes one revisit their past choices. I enjoyed this tale of choices and triumph despite some editing hiccups and the last few chapters being rushed. I have recommended this read to several people, with two in mind for a wake up.
Reviewed by: Rhea
Life is just happening for Damon Harris and he is not happy in this state and feels torn between his friends and his wife. He seems to go alone just to get along and this finally catches up with him after he does something that he regrets. Months after a series of bad choices on one particular night, his life is thrown into a tailspin. The life he knew changes and he wishes it was back as it was. After waddling in misery, he does what is necessary to make a better life for himself. In doing so, he makes a better life for others and becomes someone he is proud to be.
“Indiscretion” by Tonya Lampley is an engaging, cautionary tale that makes one revisit their past choices. I enjoyed this tale of choices and triumph despite some editing hiccups and the last few chapters being rushed. I have recommended this read to several people, with two in mind for a wake up.
Reviewed by: Rhea
January 1, 2024
This story explores finding happiness and purpose while overcoming obstacles, especially those you create for yourself. The protagonist Damon wants to be a good man and have a typical family life.
After losing the only woman he ever loved to another man, he decides to settle for a marriage to a nice woman that he doesn't love. He finds himself miserable and lost in this relationship. After a night of drinking he makes a choice that destroys his life.
When Damon hits rock bottom he must decide who he is and what he values. This was a great story about the wonderful things that can be accomplished when people embrace who they are in spite of their previous failings and chose to put others before themselves.
After losing the only woman he ever loved to another man, he decides to settle for a marriage to a nice woman that he doesn't love. He finds himself miserable and lost in this relationship. After a night of drinking he makes a choice that destroys his life.
When Damon hits rock bottom he must decide who he is and what he values. This was a great story about the wonderful things that can be accomplished when people embrace who they are in spite of their previous failings and chose to put others before themselves.
February 28, 2014
I was provided a copy of the Ebook for an honest review.
Damon was a selfish young man, he was greedy with life and didn't care who he hurt to get what he wanted. Damon was getting fed up of this lifestyle and wanted to change so when he met and started dating Carmen, a good, steady woman he decided to marry her to gain some stability in his life. Unfortunately, his old ways didn't stay away for long and one mistake changed his life forever. The saying "actions speak louder than words" is very apt for this novel. Damon now has to live with this mistake and the rest of the story revolves around how his friends, family and himself are coping with it. Sometimes mistakes in life can be turned into a positive.
Damon was a selfish young man, he was greedy with life and didn't care who he hurt to get what he wanted. Damon was getting fed up of this lifestyle and wanted to change so when he met and started dating Carmen, a good, steady woman he decided to marry her to gain some stability in his life. Unfortunately, his old ways didn't stay away for long and one mistake changed his life forever. The saying "actions speak louder than words" is very apt for this novel. Damon now has to live with this mistake and the rest of the story revolves around how his friends, family and himself are coping with it. Sometimes mistakes in life can be turned into a positive.
March 6, 2014
This was an interesting read for me. It really didn't end up where or how I thought it would. The main character, Damon, I didn't start off liking. As the story went on, I really didn't like him. Then, near the end, I was okay with him. It was the other characters in the book I was more drawn to. I felt bad for them for what Damon put them through. I felt Damon didn't know what he had, lost it all, and then somehow gained it all back even though he didn't really appreciate it. For me, the story didn't pick up until about the middle of the book. It is an interesting read in it makes you think, and appreciate, what you have and those around you.
February 19, 2014
***3.5 stars***
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